Vancouver Canucks blogger Richard Hodges Love Em Hate Em hockey blog. He recaps and rewinds the loss on Thursday night to the Calgary Flames. It appears that Marc-Andre Gragnani has played the required number of games to become a restricted and not unrestricted free agent this summer. Enjoy your time in the press box. With Kevin Bieksa, Aaron Rome, and Keith Ballard all due to come back.

NWSB Insider and Vancouver Canucks writer Richard Hodges tells us what it is that goes into being able to answer the question. Why am I a die hard fan of the Canucks?! Rags to riches stories like Alex Burrows inspire us. Roberto Luongo, Mike Gillis, Trevor Linden, 1994, Stan Smyl, Mark Messier, Mike Keenan, Henrik Sedin, Daniel Sedin made us love and hate the team, read on for more…

Richard Hodges brings us a fun Vancouver Canucks article today. If the Canucks could bring back any player from their past to join the club now, who should they choose? Richard brings us his top 5 including Giiiiiino Odjick and Trevor Linden, Mattias Ohlund, and yes even Cam Neely.

Vancouver Canucks insider C-Mac tells us the 2011/12 version of the Canucks look well capable of avoiding the path taken by the post-’94 Canucks vintage, and the blueprint appears sound. The talent is there in Roberto Luongo, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin and with another massive boost yet to come with the re-addition of the all-world Ryan Kesler.

In another installment of our Great Northwest sports moments Matt Larkin weighs in with his take on the 1982, 1994, and 2011 Vancouver Canucks Stanley Cup losing seasons. Who will be the next great Canuck to get them back in a Stanley Cup Final?